Beyond Time

04/27/2011 Human Observations

I tend to favour the futuristic aspects of science fiction when selecting entertainment and objects of study.  So, it’s no small wonder that my view of the bible would also reflect that tendency.  I love the way Paul writes to members of the church providing hope and encouragement in a way that describes future events in the Past-Tense!

 1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God: ¹⁰And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 
I believe the Words of Jesus the Messiah, so I, too, RECKON it to be so, all that The Holy scriptures promise, in both the old and new Testaments. 

Ephesians 1

⁸Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;  ⁹Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: ¹⁰That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all ¹¹In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: ¹²That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.  ¹³In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise …